The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from July 2007

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from July 2007

July-August 2007: "Weird Psychology".
July 1, 2007... The call for submissions billed the theme for this issue simply as "Psychological issues for GLBT people." While I had no idea what to expect, I was surprised to receive mostly papers on psychotherapeutic and religiously-based change therapies...

Big gains in GLBT rights from coast to coast.(GUEST OPINION)
July 1, 2007... The 2007 state legislative season has been the most productive in the history of the GLBT rights movement. For the first time in our history more than half of the U.S. population will live in jurisdictions that outlaw discrimination on the...

Can this reader be saved?(GUEST OPINION)
July 1, 2007... The following remarks were offered by the author at a panel discussion comprised of G & LR contributors at the Equality Forum conference in Philadelphia in May. Moderated by editor Richard Schneider, the other panelists were Andrew Holleran,...

"The first gay activist".(BTW)(Thomas Cannon)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... This is how the BBC described one Thomas Cannon, who wrote a defense of "pederasty," published in 1749, that recently came to light. What University of Manchester scholar Hal Gladfelder discovered was not the work itself, but instead a legal...

April fools!(BTW)(Fox News Network L.L.C.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Fox News anchors like Bill O'Reilly are notorious for grabbing a story from any source, preferably within the rightwing "echo chamber," and then reporting it as news. This seems to be Fox's MO on the local level as well, where the intelligence...

Item.(BTW)(Andrew Embiricos)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Twenty-one-year-old Andrew Embiricos is a young New York socialite. The son of Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, a grandson of Rita Hayworth, he's also a first nephew of the current Aga Khan. By tradition of the Aga Khan bloodline, he's thus a direct...

McGreevey's new calling.(BTW)(Jim McGreevey, former New Jersey Governor to teach at Kean University)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Hard to believe it's been over two years since Jim McGreevey resigned as governor of New Jersey. To review: what got McGreevey into trouble was not being gay but appointing a man named Golan Cipel, with whom he was apparently in love or lust,...

Gloat if you will.(Center for Reclaiming America closed down)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... And why not? The ultra-homophobic organization known as the Center for Reclaiming America is no more. Founded in 1996, the Florida-based Christian political organization closed its doors in April for lack of support. And to think it was only...

Check it out.(BTW)(public service advertising against pot-smoking)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... This one works best if you've seen exhibit A, which can be viewed on the Web at: adage.com/vidt?pld=. It's a public service ad against pot-smoking that ran on MTV Canada and left people agape. Three very handsome, indeed hot, young men are...

Another one bites the carpet.(BTW)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... A propos of this issue's theme: in a moment reminiscent of Tom Cruise's sofa jump on Oprah--no, far, far stranger--ex-gay guru Richard Cohen appeared opposite Wayne Besen on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and strutted his stuff. To show how he...

Dance and gay liberation.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2007... To the Editor: I write in response to your feature in November-December 2006, "Bodies in Motion." I would like to have seen at least one of the articles pushing theoretical considerations further than acknowledging the links between dance,...

Tennessee in New Orleans.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2007... To the Editor: I am writing with concern to half of the teaser in your table of contents regarding Andrew Holleran's essay "Big Daddy" [March-April 2007], which reads in full: "Tennessee Williams revealed all--except how he wrote so well."...

La vie en James.(ESSAY)(Henry James Goes to Paris)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Henry James Goes to Paris by Peter Brooks Princeton University Press. 255 pages, $24.95 THE CITY we most associate with Henry James is London, but when, at the age of 32, James left his family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he moved...

Mortar.(Poem)
July 1, 2007... My girlfriend makes haroset Passover Haroset Recipe found online, a fine ground mix from Eastern Europe-- peasant food like her immigrant father made and my immigrant grandmother: Greek lemon soup, feta and olives, Jewish kugel and...

The Kirstein century.(ESSAY)(The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein by Martin Duberman Alfred A. Knopf. 736 pages, $37.50 LINCOLN CENTER wasn't named after Lincoln Kirstein, but perhaps it should have been. Did anyone equal his achievements in nurturing high culture...

Martin Duberman on Kirstein and cures.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... By coincidence, this issue of the G & LR spotlights two topics with which Martin Duberman is closely associated: the life and times of Lincoln Kirstein and the application of various therapies to change the sexual orientation of gay people. His...

The vote that 'coured' millions.(ESSAY)(Excerpt)
July 1, 2007... Editor's Note: The following speech by the late Barbara Gittings appears as the preface to a new book published by Haworth Press, American Psychiatry and Homosexuality: An Oral History, a book of interviews edited by Jack Drescher and Joseph P....

The politics of the ex-gay movement.(Essay)
July 1, 2007... ALAN CHAMBERS, the President of Exodus International, a group claiming to change the sexual orientation of homosexuals, sunk in his chair and squirmed as the camera closed in on his crinkled face. There was a quick cutaway to the audience where...

Anatomy of a pseudo-science.(Essay)
July 1, 2007... IN SUMMER 2005, Zachary Stark wrote in a web log about his parents' forcing him to attend Refuge, an ex-gay outpatient program for adolescents aged thirteen to eighteen sponsored by an organization named Love In Action (LIA). While there,...

Surviving a therapeutic cult.(Essay)
July 1, 2007... I WAS 24 YEARS OLD. It was 1989, and I had just moved from my hometown in Canada. I had come out to my Catholic family two years earlier, and since then our relationship had escalated from constant criticism to outright rejection. Isolated and...

Chincoteague Island, 1989.(Poem)
July 1, 2007... I'd like to believe the one where Spanish galleons crash off the Virginia coast and hundreds of horses rock the waves in their yellow, foamy manes. Or, at least enough of the legend to tie pony to water to pedal. I was a little girl in...

Why ex-gay therapy doesn't work.(Essay)
July 1, 2007... TEARS COURSED down my cheeks as I drove toward my destination. For the first time in my life I believed I had found someone who could help me with my same-sex attractions. I was right on time for the first of the three prerequisite sessions...

Dancer.(Poem)
July 1, 2007... Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) Egg tempera on pressed wood panel, 1945 1.5 x 1.25 inches Sprawled in tights On floorboards in the tiny Square of time drafted between Rehearsals near the end Of the war, page after page He...

AIDS writing in crisis times and today.(Essay)
July 1, 2007... "Unsung, the noblest deed will die."--Pindar, Fragment 120 THE ART OF AN ERA is defined by the manner in which creative people collectively respond to a history and cultural change. The Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Generation, and Pop Art...

Dan Mathews: connecting animal and gay rights.(AUTHOR'S PROFILE)(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Dan Mathews, vice president of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), is the originator of many of that organization's most controversial campaigns against animal cruelty, notably their "I'd rather go naked than wear fur"...

In Exurbia.(Poem)
July 1, 2007... The belt you take off, warm from your waist. Your body has heated a second skin, then mine. This happens in your apartment, a parcel of Indiana sprawl. The interstate whines, vehicles missile above an earth berm. I could say to...

What happened in Hollywood ...(Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway by Farley Granger with Robert Calhoun St. Martin's Press. 272 pages, $26.95 IN THE PROLOGUE to his memoir, Include Me Out, Farley Granger recollects how, in December 2004, he was...

Alan Cumming: triple threat from across the pond.(ARTIST'S PROFILE)(Interview)
July 1, 2007... ALAN CUMMING has been working as an actor, director, and producer in film, television, and stage for over twenty years. Best known to the general public for his successful performances in such commercial movies as Spice World, Spy Kids, Son of...

'Ennui and resignation'.(The Nightinghouls of Paris)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Nightinghouls of Paris by Robert McAlmon; edited by Sanford J. Smoller University of Illinois Press 264 pages, $40. ROBERT MCALMON. The name may seem familiar, but probably as an adjunct to some other writer. Born in 1895, as a...

Dietrich the War hero.(A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered Edited by J. David Riva and Guy Stern Wayne State University Press. 192 pages (63 illustrations), $50. MARLENE DIETRICH'S grandson, David Riva, has produced, with Guy Stern, a book filled...

The left coast.(Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics by Daniel Hurewitz University of California Press. 377 pages, $29.95 FOR ANGELENOS in the know, Hollywood is nothing more than a neighborhood, one not nearly as interesting as...

Lure of the fatal city.(Day of the Dead and Other Stories)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Day of the Dead and Other Stories by Victoria A. Brownworth Haworth Press. 190 pages, $14.95 (paper) "FOG HAD ALWAYS held a dangerous allure for her. She was drawn to it, yet knew within its smeared edges and blurry recess there...

A gender dilemma.(She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband by Helen Boyd Seal Press (Avalon). 290 pages, $15.95 (paper) ASK ANY EAGER MOTHER- or father-to-be about the gender of the new baby, and you can nearly guarantee that...

Call me by your name.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... by Andre Aciman Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 256 pages. $23. "Do I dare to eat a peach?" Read this book and the line from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" will take on quite a new meaning. Aciman, who's an authority on...

The mosaic virus.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... by Carlos T. Mock, MD Floricanto Press. 268 pages, $24.95 This is a medical, religious, and political thriller all rolled into one. Carlos Mock has set the novel in 1983 when 37 priests (and counting) in the U.S. have died...

Men who love men.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... by William J. Mann Kensington. 432 pages, $24. With Men Who Love Men, the well-established novelist and biographer William J. Mann completes a trilogy that began with Men from the Boys in 1997 and Where the Boys Are in 2003. Set almost...

What becomes you.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz Univ. of Nebraska Press. 314 pages, $24.95 This collaborative memoir by Aaron Link and his mother Raz (Trans; Living on the Margins) explores the complicated terrain of gender, sexuality, and family....

Boston Boys Club.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... by Johnny Diaz Kensington. 304 pages, $15. Boston Globe staff writer and blogger Johnny Diaz moved to the Boston area a few years ago from Miami. Boston's Club Cafe, situated in what was once the very gay South End, is the frequent...

Gay Travels in the Muslim world.(BRIEFS)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Edited by Michael T. Luongo Harrington Park Press. 193 pages, $19.95 Few topics in gay-themed books are timelier than homosexuality in the Muslim world. Since 9/11, Americans have struggled to understand a culture we previously treated...

Rebecca: how a lesbian-inflected movie got made.(ART MEMO)
July 1, 2007... IN 1938, Daphne du Maurier's melodramatic novel, Rebecca, became an international bestseller, and Hollywood producer David O. Selznick acquired the film rights for $50,000. Also in 1938, Alfred Hitchcock, then a noted director of British-made...

Conferences/events.(Bulletin Board)(Calendar)
July 1, 2007... Ex-Gay Survivor's Conference will be held June 29-July 1 at UC-Irvine. For those who've been through it and those who want to know more. For info or to register, go to: beyondexgay.com/conference. International Perspectives on LGBT Rights....

Dame Edna: drag act or performance artist?(THEATRE)(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Back With a Vengeance Tour Performed by Dame Edna... and backstage with the artist DAME EDNA EVERAGE is the only Tony Award-winning star who quizzes the audience and insults what they wear. Galumphing about the stage in a...

All sides of a triangle.(THEATRE)(Dying City)(Theater review)
July 1, 2007... Dying City by Christopher Shinn Produced by Lincoln Center Theater ATTENDING a performance of this new drama by Christopher Shinn is something like watching a traffic accident in slow motion--and I mean that in the best way. You...

OD'ing on being John Malkovich.(FILM)(Colour Me Kubrick: A True ... ish Story)(Movie review)
July 1, 2007... Colour Me Kubrick: A True... ish Story Written by Anthony Frewin Directed by Brian W. Cook Magnolia Pictures HAS THERE ever been a more unlikely link between two men than the one between Stanley Kubrick and Alan Conway? ...